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In the Sacklers’ Backyard: The Future of Connecticut’s Opioid Epidemic Response
Liz Fitzgerald had been waiting for this. It was March 10th, 2022, and she suddenly found herself speaking before the family that had upended her life and robbed her of two children. Fitzgerald has lost two sons to opioid addiction. Kyle, aged 25, died in 2013. Four years later, she lost his older brother, Matthew,…
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The End of Ideas: Liberation, Liberal Arts and The Closure of Yale-NUS
On August 25, 2021, Luke Davies YNUS ’23 got an email from the Yale-NUS administration. There would be a town hall the next day at 9 a.m. Classes were canceled. “Imagine they’re going to tell us the school is closing,” he joked to a friend.
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Stuck in the Middle: France, the European Union, and a Case Study for the United States
One country has received hardly any attention from American onlookers despite the sprawling influence and global admiration it once enjoyed: France. While the United States unceasingly observes China, Russia, and Germany while keeping an eye out for its close English ally, France always comes second in the eyes of American policymakers.
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Soldiers for Statecraft: Russia’s Ambitions in Ukraine and the American Response
Putin’s actions, while reinforced by a Russian nationalist ideology, are principally driven by his desire to assert Russian supremacy over the international sphere while countering efforts to expand democratic processes.
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Do the VA and NJ results spell trouble for Democrats?
In November, Democrats lost a Governor’s race in Virginia, a state Biden won by 10, and they barely held on in New Jersey even though Biden won it by 16 just a year earlier. National media outlets and so-called political experts were quick to chalk the losses up to Biden’s lowered popularity and Congressional Democrats’…
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In Defense of Coal Miners – Centering Corporate Cultural Manipulation in the Age of Environmentalism
The modern environmentalist is an intellectual individual, armed with vast amounts of data, robust environmental theory, and no shortage of protest tactics. They recognize their role in the climate crisis, opting to switch to plant-based diets, transitioning to public transportation, buying second-hand apparel, protesting for climate justice, and learning to recycle more effectively.
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Freedom for Whom: Chinese Students and Their Experiences in America
In 2000, President Bill Clinton signed the United States-China Relationship Act into law. The law established permanent “normal” relations with China, thereby allowing China to join international institutions such as the World Trade Organization (WTO) and to be fully integrated into the global economic community. Clinton believed that relations between the United States and China…
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Between Power and Possibility: How African States Navigate Agency, History and Strategic Choice in the Modern Dynamics of U.S – China Competition
Historically, African states have had to exercise their agency practically, which sometimes came in the form of “colluding with the colonizer to get the best possible outcome, whether for themselves or for their people”, Yale Professor of South African History Daniel Maganizer told The Politic. Since the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade in the…
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Venture Capital as China’s Next Soft-Power Play in the Western Hemisphere
This piece was written by a Yale student for The Future of U.S.–China Relations, a joint special issue by The Yale Politic and Tsinghua Youth Voice. Nestled among the misty Hengduan mountains 40 miles from the Myanmar border, the small city of Lincang occupies an unassuming corner of China’s southwestern Yunnan Province. But for serious…
